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12/17/2002 06:55:00 PM | Brad Plumer Transit strike in NYC Jared, you mentioned yesterday: "As an aside, I don't know if anyone's chillin' in NY City, but dood, there SO should have been a strike. It's insane how much they're letting themselves get stepped on." What exactly makes the transit union such a sympathetic cause? If anything, it sounded like they were trying to take advantage of a rookie mayor facing major budget problems ($4 billion over at last count) and a city still recovering from a major catastrophe. Inflation is nearly zero in New York right now and the transit workers made an average of $44,000 a year pre-negotiations, so I have a hard time understanding what pressing needs drove them to threaten an illegal strike in a time when the city can barely afford it. What am I missing? I know nothing about the disciplinary/safety conditions (they rarely get mentioned), so maybe that could shed some light on the situation... I also have a hard time understanding why the MTA is running a deficit... didn't they cry deficit once before to get the upper hand in negotiations only to "discover" that things weren't so bad? perma link |
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